The Father of a Prodigy Observes the World of Chess

The story of Fred Waitzkin and his son, from the moment six-year-old Josh first sits down at a chessboard until he wins the national championship. Father and son are drawn into…

7 Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist

Economics is the mother tongue of public policy. It dominates our decision-making for the future, guides multi-billion-dollar investments, and shapes our responses to climate change,…

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Bekroond met Best verzorgde boeken 2013
Winner of Best verzorgde boeken 2013 (the Best Designed Books 2013)

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The 1920s were exciting and crucial days in the development of modern art and design. Artists of the 19th century had rejected the machine and had attempted an artificial revival of craftsmanship. In contrast, the artists and…

Summer Cooking contains over a thousand recipes from all over the world — for table, buffet, or picnic. Elizabeth David is well known for the infectious enthusiasm with which she has handled French, Italian, and Mediterranean…

First edition

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An ‘investigation into the language of science fiction cinema’. It presents pictures taken in four cities ‘on the verge of transition to capture glimpses of the future. Stig tries to mirror photography’s constitutional…

The Curious Lives of the Elements

Everything is made of them, from the furthest reaches of the universe to this book that you hold in your hands, including you.

Like you, the elements have lives: personalities and attitudes,…

or How to Eat Your Husband

Always let the meat rest under foil for at least ten minutes before carving...

Meet Lizzie Prain. Ordinary housewife. Fifty-something. Lives in a cottage in the woods, with her dog Rita. Likes cooking,…

Hardcover
Eerste editie, 2002

Fotografen Nicholas Kahn en Richard Selesnick construeren een wereld die zij omschrijven als een 'oneindige belofte die onmogelijk kan worden beschreven of gecommuniceerd behalve door directe…

Portraits of Catherine Bailey

Text by Fay Weldon

Hardcover

From the legendary David Bailey comes this collection of photographs - a tribute to his wife, the model Catherine Bailey. Divided into five sections - nudes, fashion,…

From the turn-of-the-century S-bend silhouette to the bumster and bustier of the 1990s, this comprehensive survey explores all the significant developments in fashion in a century that saw a growing preoccupation with personal…

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Rixt A. Bosma re-examines the relationship between Photo-journalist Robert Capa and the Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens, while they were travelling and working together in China during the Sino-Japanese War in…

Volume 1

Belgian solutions is first of all a title, that became a way of speaking: 'Look, a Belgian solution.' It all started with me stopping to take pictures of situations that I later began publishing on Facebook under this…

A classic counting book featuring the wildlife illustrations of Charley Harper introduce the numbers from one to ten. On board pages.

Charley Harper was an American original. For more than six decades he painted colorful and…

De early signs of Dutch graffitiBack in the day, before hip-hop ruled the planet, Amsterdam had its own home-grown graffiti culture. The streets and alleys were covered with the markings of rebellious youth, long before the New…

WHY THINGS CATCH ONDynamic young Wharton marketing professor Jonah Berger draws on his research to explain the six steps that make products or ideas contagious. Why do some products get more word of mouth than others? Why does…

Breton WomenContemporary photographic portraits of Breton women wearing traditional lace headdresses, by one of Europe’s most exciting young photographers

Charles Fréger has photographed a series of portraits of Breton women…

A WOLF IN THE KITCHEN is a book about eating well every day without much fuss and bother. lt is for those people who adore good food but think they can't cook and haven't the time or inclination to learn. lt is healthy food and,…

Lamps & LightsThe effect of light cannot be overestimated. The most splendid interior will not shine without adequate lighting.

In the last few years, a new school of lamp designers and light manufacturers have taken the lead in…

Firts edition, 2001

Fruits is a collection of Tokyo street fashion portraits from Japan's premier street fanzine of the same name. 'Fruits' was established in 1994, by photographer Shoichi Aoki, initially as a project to document…

Chagall's sprightly fiddler on the roof and his romantic airborne lovers—affectionate icons from the artist's early days in a Russian village—have become some of the most familiar and most loved figures in all of…

First edtion, 2005

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When Magnum conceived an assignment on the theme of…

Hardcover

The book XS Big Ideas, Small Buildings is a celebration of the small, the compact, the unexpected little buildings we encounter in the landscape or cityscape that give us pause to ponder their meaning or that make us…

A rogue's guide tot the work, the culture, and how do it yourself

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In this collection of taxidermy art, you ll find a winged monkey with a fez and a martini glass, a jewel-encrusted piglet, a bionic fawn, and a polar…

Understanding philosophy -through jokes-

Outrageously funny, Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar.. has been a breakout bestseller ever since authors—and born vaudevillians—Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein did their schtick…

1994-2004

Hardcover

Ten years. A decade. In dog and cat years it's even longer, and in cartooning years, well, it's just plain rare to maintain the popularity and consistent excellence that Mutts and Patrick McDonnell have…

Eating, Design and Future FoodFood is not just a hot topic in design and cutting edge creativity today, but also an enormous industry with changing standards and perceptions. crEATe. Eating, Design and Future Food investigates…

7 Books Boxed Set CollectionJeremy Strong is one of the funniest authors writing in children's fiction and this is his series about Streaker, a dog that can run as fast as a whirlwind.

Unfortunately, Streaker hasn't been trained…

With photographs by Steve McCurry

'Wonderful writing. This is his best work of non-fiction. If acted upon, it may prove to be his most important' SUNDAY HERALD

On road trips spanning four seasons, wending along rural highways,…

Biography / Film

CONVERSATIONS WITH FILMMAKERS SERIES

"A film takes form outside your will as a constructor; all genuine details come through inspiration."

The films of Federico Fellini (1920—1993) deal equally with…

Celebrated People's Pictures

Black and white photos of celebrities as a child in the 1920s and 1930s

Zwart-witfoto's beroemdheden als kind in de jaren 1920 en 1930

Kinderfoto's van: Muhammad Ali, Louis Armstrong, Isaak Babel,…

(Re)discovering Europe. Dream weekends with practical itineraries from Paris to Perm. Culture, history, natural beauty, fine cuisine, artistic masterpieces, cutting-edge architecture and style - Europe overflows with so many…

A Natural History of ZeroA symbol for what is not there, an emptiness that increases any number it's added to, an inexhaustible and indispensable paradox. Nothing itself, it makes possible a myriad of calculations. Indeed, without…

An interdiciplinary project and an international symposium on the conservation of modern and contemporary art

The conservation of contemporary art should not be a static process carried out behind closed doors but dynamic and…

Children's Books Authors in Flanders and The Netherlands

With an introduction by Aidan Chambers

This guide contains 164 portraits of Dutch and Flemish children's authors, in alphabetical order. Each portrait gives a short…

In Two Minds documents Gwenneth Boelens’ practice of the past ten years, comprising photography and sculpture, as well as performative and filmic works. An extensive chapter of notes, written by her partner and editor Nickel van…

Enter Second Nature

Don't copy - paste, but copy - morph. —Daan Roosegaarde

Interactive Landscapes offers a futuristic perspective on everyday reality. Dutch artist and architect Daan Roosegaarde (1979) explores the dawn of a…

Arno Nollen has been published in conjunction with the solo exhibition in De Hallen Haarlem, December 18, 2004 - March 6, 2005.

46 full-page photos

Epilogue by Karel Schampers

Language: English

Arno Nollen, (text by) Jhim…

Laurie Anderson is one of the most acclaimed and innovative performance artists and musicians work- ing today. The entire scope of her exciting career is celebrated in this volume, from her early art works and performances in the…

Taal/Language: Nederlands/English

Een overzicht van leden van de Beroepsorganisatie Nederlandse Ontwerpers BNO en hun werk.

A survey of members of the Association of Dutch Designers BNO and their work.

7 delen in cassette met…

This collection of essays provides the first comprehensive survey of Hollywood and independent films from the mid-sixties to the present. Deliberately eclectic and panoramic, The New American Cinema brings together thirteen…

Taal/language: Nederlands/English

Joop Istha (Amsterdam 1933) behoort tot de eerste generatie industrieel ontwerpers in Nederland, die na de Tweede Wereldoorlog massaconsumptieartikelen ontwierp waarbij vorm en functie even…

On an autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in the wealthiest quarter of Amsterdam. She has come from the country to begin a new life as the wife of illustrious merchant trader…

Taal/Language/Sprache: Nederlands/English/Deutsch

Men kan zich afvragen of ergens ter wereld een plaats is aan te wijzen die de laatste vijfhonderd jaar zo vaak en zo ingrijpend is veranderd als het gebied van de huidige…

Nederlands-Engels/Dutch-English

Catalogus uitgegeven bij eerste complete overzichtstentoonstelling in 1989 van de Russische kunstenaar Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935). In zijn werk speelden het landschap en de folklore lange tijd…

Watercolours and Drawings
Half a millennium lies between us and Albrecht Dürer (1471 — 1528). His ability to represent what he saw struck his contemporaries as miraculous, and to this day his art has lost none of its power. His…

A Checklist of Treatises on Fortification in the Newberry Library

Language: English

Military Architecture Cartography and the Representation of the Early Modern European City, Martha D. Pollak, good condition (small fold in…

Hardcover

Timber housing has always been found in areas that have forests, but as a material, wood is no longer the reserve of log cabins or other vernacular dwellings. Today's wood houses are found not only in the woods but in…

Cooking and Gardening from Maine's Most Beautiful Farmhouse Restaurant
Part how-to-garden primer, The Arrows Cookbook combines more than 150 delicious recipes with time-tested techniques for growing herbs, vegetables, and edible…

The life of Curtis MayfieldHardcover!

Curtis Mayfield was one of the seminal vocalists and most talented guitarists of his era. But perhaps more important is his role as a social critic, and the vital influence his music had on…

Verschenen in 2005 naar aanleiding van tentoonstelling in MHK in de Bosch.

De van oorsprong Russische kunstenaar Marc Chagall (1887-1985) is vooral beroemd geworden om zijn dromerige, haast surrealistische schilderijen. Minder…

Ten days, thirty places. From north to south. From food to politics. From saintliness to sexuality. This ironic, methodical, and sentimental examination will help you understand why Italy—as Beppe says—“can have you fuming…

Victor Horta (Ghent, 1861-1947) is certainly one of the maximum exponents of the Art Nouveau movement. Already in his first works Horta will abandon the neo-Classical style he learned in his training and give himself over to the…

The Swede, Jan Olofsson, bom in 1944 in Orkeljunga, is no typical photographer. His eventful life led him via Germany to Great Britain, where he was able to experience the “swinging London” of the sixties at close hand. Being…

Fotograaf en illustrator Todd Selby binnen bij kunstenaars, ontwerpers, muzikanten, schrijvers en andere creatieve mensen. Niet de perfect gestileerde interieurs staan centraal, maar de persoonlijke werelden die mensen zelf om zic

Royal Horticultural Society's Encyclopaedia of Practical Gardening

A practical guide to rock gardening that describes how to design, build and care for your rock garden. Covering all aspects from boulder and scree beds to…

Hardcover

For over a year, 69 of Europe's best nature photographers travelled to all corners of Europe's 48 countries to unveil the incredibly rich and amazingly varied natural heritage of this continent. From the polar bears of…

A Hard Country

In the past decade Pakistan has become a country of immense importance to its region, the United States, and the world. With almost 200 million people, a 500,000-man army, nuclear weapons, and a large diaspora in…

A novel

Hardcover!

Lovable rogue and sleuth extraordinaire Sam Levitt is back in another beguiling, as-only-Peter-Mayle- can-write-it romp through the South of France.

At the end of 'The Vintage Caper', Sam had just carried off…

All it takes is a shake of the wrist to make the flakes fall on Santa’s sleigh, Elvis’s hips, or the Statue of Liberty’s torch—creating a miniature world in each snow globe. From the ornate to the political, from…

Since the early 1980s, David Byrne has been riding a bicycle as his principal means of transportation in New York City. A few years later he discovered folding bikes, and started taking them with him on music tour overseas. The…

Sunday Times Bestseller Elizabeth is Missing is the stunning, smash-hit debut novel from new author Emma Healey

Winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2014
Shortlisted for the National Book Awards Popular Fiction Book…

A tribute to all who dig the groove

Brazilian superstar Ed Motta came to Holland to buy an apartment, but spent all his money on vinyl instead. When a young Mikael Åkerfeldt of Opeth discovered a scratch on his recently bought…

What Is This Thing Called Polaroid? focuses on the intimate relationship the artist Ulay (born 1943) has developed with the medium of Polaroid, which he has been exploring since the 1970s. For him the unique and immediate…

HOME - The joy of interior styling It's a kind of magic. An everyday kind of magic, but wondrous nonetheless. Interior styling means putting objects and furniture and colours together in such a way that they stop simply being…

A History of Grand Eating

Sharing a grand meal has always been a complex social event. Feasts have been used to celebrate significant occasions, to parade rank and hierarchy, and to flatter and influence people. There has always…

A vivid and powerful rendering of the unparalleled life of an extraordinary artist.

'I HAD EXPERIENCED ABSOLUTE FREEOOM - I HAD FELT THAT MY BODY WAS WITHOUT BOUNDARIES. LIMITLESS; THAT PAIN DIDN'T MATTER, THAT NOTHING MATTERED…

BIG DATA, CIVIC HACKERS, AND THE QUEST FOR A NEW UTOPIA

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From Beijing to…

14 management principles from the world's greatest manufacturer

Toyota, the company that invented Lean production

Iconic
First edition, 2004

Hardcover with dust jacket

This book is in stock in our warehouse in the Netherlands…

man, fire, and clay through the ages

Hardcover
(the book is permanently covered with transparent plastic film / het boek is gekaft met boeklon kaftplastic)

This book is both a practical handbook and a unique investigation into…

An exceptional ethnography marked by clarity and candor, Sidewalk takes us into the socio-cultural environment of those who, though often seen as threatening or unseemly, work day after day on 'the blocks' of one of New York's…

Hardcover

De Zweedse kunstenaar Nathalie Djurberg (1978) is vooral bekend van haar animatiefilms, die op het eerste gezicht lief en onschuldig lijken. In haar werk behandelt Djurberg thema's als obsessie, macht, genot, begeerte…

A reader

The 4th edition of John Storey's successful reader in Cultural Theory and Popular Culture is a companion volume to Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction, now in its 5th edition. The Reader offers students…

An Album of Pictures and Words Written and Compiled by Aaron Scharf

A SUPERBLY ILLUSTRATED, lively, intimate history of one of the great aesthetic adventures of the modern world—the making of the first photographs. Here are the…

Dear Friends,

I LOVE-LOVE-LOVE my job as the classroom hamster of Room 26.

But when our teacher, Mrs. Brisbane, didn't show up for school, I was unspeakable worried about what had happened to her.

Then a supply teacher, the…

Presents the author's thoughts on art, discussing the nature of art, the criteria which should be used in interpreting it, and the qualities which give a work of art universal meaning.

Language: English

What Art Is, Arthur C.…

Shaping the news in the digital age: typography & image on modern newsprint

The look, feel and presentation of information in newspapers has changed enormously over the last 15 years. This book takes examples from around the…

The Old World has confronted archaeologists with many riddles, perhaps the most tantalizing of which is the Dark Age, an economic and cultural recession so devastating that it is supposed to have lasted for 400 years, from 1200 to…

A survey of the diet of early peoples

A world-wide survey of the eating and drinking habits of early peoples, Don and Patricia Brothwell's Food in Antiquity covers a broad geographical range, from the early populations of Asia,…

H.W. Janson's monumental History of Art is the key book for the study and enjoyment of Western art, the work against which all other art-history surveys are measured. Its eloquent text and matchless quality of Western art to…

Strategies for SURVIVAL and SUCCESS

- How do I get others to take me more seriously?- Can I learn to settle for respect instead of needing to be liked?

- What is the difference between authoritative and authoritarian?

- How can…

The Garden Book presents a diverse range of designers responsible for some of the most interesting and iconic gardens and landscapes of all time, from around the world. Gardens of Ancient Persia, the Moguls of India, and the…

This book presents the ten most representative projects undertaken from 1985 to 2003.

While Renzo Piano (Genoa, 1937) at the Milan Polytechnic studied architecture, he worked atFrnco Albini. A valuable source of experience…

Port of Amsterdam gives in word and picture a captivating survey of every aspect closely connected with the Amsterdam port. The text contains much interesting and historical information, but the author also indicates how greatly…

The Gypsies and Their Journey

Isabel Fonseca describes the four years she spent with Gypsies from Albania to Poland, listening to their stories, deciphering their taboos, and befriending their matriarchs, activists, and child…

The Dutch photographer Dana Lixenberg takes a direct and nonconceptual approach to photography. Her eye is nonjudgmental, and all her subjects, however varied, are treated with the same gaze. This volume presents her work from the…

Written by Jessica Lehrer, Rick Lightstone and Alice Murray, Traveler’s Advisory proves that laughter is indeed a universal language, and the tidbits of advice it dispenses will resonate with anyone who has ever missed a bus,…

Taking a page from Jules Verne's classic tale, Monisha Rajesh embarked on an adventure around India in eighty trains. Indian trains carry over twenty million passengers daily, plowing through cities, crawling past villages,…

This compelling monograph collects photographs made by the Dutch photographer Marco van Duyvendijk during his travels in China, Mongolia, Taiwan and South Korea. Portraits of Mongolian contortionist girls and alternative youth…

A Graphic History, 1939-1959

In this informative and entertaining description of the first 20 years of paperback history, the emphasis is on the way these early books looked, and especially on their covers: who made them, how…

The most analogue tip and photo guidebook in German and English

In deze Lomography City Guide van Berlijn vind je heel veel informatie over deze superhippe metropool. Ontdek vele onbekende locaties, cafés en clubs.

Met uitleg…

Voor de één is Schiphol Airport het visitekaartje en de economische motor van Nederland, voor de ander de mislukking van de planologische ontwikkelingen en het landelijk milieubeleid. Dit boek met foto's van Reinier Gerritsen en…

The Struggle for Supremacy, 1453 to the Present

Brendan Simms's formidable, game-changing history of Europe

In this marvelously ambitious and exciting book, Brendan Simms tells the story of Europe's constantly shifting…

With Karen Hunter

The autobiography of the hip-hop and rap star, television actor, and positive role model details his career, childhood, private life, public service, and views on the music business.

I Make My Own Rules, LL…

Amsterdam werkt als een magneet voor Amerikaanse kunstenaars; opvallend veel schilders, beeldhouwers, fotografen en andere beeldend kunstenaars uit de Verenigde Staten hebben Amsterdam als thuisbasis. Omgekeerd oefent New York een…

The Biography

Hardcover

Dit boek is op voorraad in ons magazijn in Nederland en snel beschikbaar

The classic London fogs-thick yellow 'pea-soupers,'- were born in the industrial age and remained a feature of cold, windless…

Vivre en Toscane

Tuscan treasures. Gorgeous homes in the Italian countryside. Under the burning Tuscan sun roll marvelous hills, vineyards, olive groves - all postcard-perfect landscapes nestling medieval towns, rural villas, and…

Globalization, Mobility and Suspension in Visual Culture

We usually associate contemporary urban life with movement and speed. But what about those instances when the forms of mobility associated with globalized cities - the flow…

As controversial and groundbreaking as when it was first published, Davidson's document of life in Harlem is one of the truly essential photodocumentaries. Portraying neither victims nor heros, his portraits reveal the complexity…